The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) spacecraft launched to change the direction of the asteroid will collide with the target asteroid on the 27th.
NASA announced that the spacecraft launched for the so-called ‘Dart Mission’, a twin asteroid orbital correction test, collided with the asteroid Dimorphus at regarding 10.8 million km from Earth at 8:14 am on the 27th of our time.
The dart mission is a test to see if a spacecraft can change direction by colliding a spacecraft with a space object that is likely to collide with the Earth.
When a spacecraft collides with an asteroid, the speed is regarding 6 km/s, and the collision is expected to change the orbit of the asteroid by more than 7 minutes, NASA said.
The impact of the dart is captured by the camera of the Cube satellite, which is separated from the spacecraft 10 days before the collision, and transmitted to Earth, and it will be observed through an astronomical telescope on the ground.
Asteroid Dimorphus is an asteroid with a diameter of regarding 160 m, orbiting another asteroid Didymos, and although it is unlikely that it will collide with Earth, it was selected for the purpose of this test.
YTN Choi Sora ([email protected])
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